... Management philosophy Organizational performance Management accounting Inventory control Production control Theories that are learned and not practiced evaporate quickly (Afuah, 1998). During the last two decades, manufacturers and other businesses have witnessed the development of a wide...

...Hans van der Bij; Jeroen H.W. van Ekert Describes a qualitative study on interaction between systems for production control and quality control within industrial organisations. Production control and quality control interact in a sense. Good performance for one aspect often influences or frustrates...

...Alan Fowler Argues that in increasingly turbulent and complex environments, the tools of “systems thinking” may provide a valuable resource in the drive to attain integration between strategic and operational objectives. Particular examples in the domain of production control and supply‐chain...

... by: and Q is given by: © MCB UP Limited 1996 Production control Storage Throughput time Quality is recognized as the key to the ongoing prosperity of any industrial concern. “Customer focus and satisfaction” is a pivotal category in the Baldrige Quality Awards. The ultimate customer...

... which cause these performance deviations. These disturbances can be divided into three categories: © MCB UP Limited 1996 Decision making Performance measurement Production control Production scheduling Shopfloor Production scheduling, which is a part of the planning...

... kanban control policies by deriving qualitative properties as well as using experimental results on the behaviour of GKCS. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Design Kanban Performance measurement Production control Queuing theory IJOPM 15,9 158 On the design of generalized kanban control systems...

... with large‐scale automation. Control is primarily by means of information provided by sensors in the control room. Food industry Manufacturing Production control Scheduling The problem will consist of determining a scheduling of batches on a production line by respecting the constraints...

... in an ETO environment. The key success in the operation of the system will depend on the co‐operation of production planning in MTS and ATO environments, co‐operation of production control in an MTO environment,and co‐operation in engineering‐design and production control in an ETO environment. Unlike ATO...

... schedule has been generated. Job scheduling and day‐to‐day activity control at the shopfloor is generally neglected by these models. This could create infeasibility problems especially if resource capacities are tight. Equation (6) Heuristics Just‐in‐time Modelling Production control...

...Jan C. Fransoo; Werner G.M.M. Rutten Discusses the variety of production control situations within process industries. Following a literature review, a typology is introduced which discriminates between two extreme types of process industries:batch/mix and process/flow businesses. Reviews...

... flexibility. In contrast to this, in low processing flexibility situations, there is no significant difference between the various scheduling procedures. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Dispatch Flexible manufacturing systems Production control Scheduling Dispatching Procedures for a Flexible...

... makers facing the complex task of implementing pull production processes. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Inventory control Just‐in‐time Manufacturing industry Methodology Process control Production control IJOPM 13,6 4 Received February 1991 Revised October 1991 Planning for Continual...

... a radical simplification of the multi‐product environment which will be of interest to a broad cross‐section of professionals ranging from theorists to practising financial and production managers. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Cost allocation Manufacturing Product mix Production control Cost control...

...‐best way” approach to shopfloor measurement systems. Discards this in favour of an alternative approach outlined. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Japan Manufacturing Performance measurement Systems design United Kingdom Improvement Competitive advantage Production control Organizational...

... the general results of the business. Demand Management and Production Control in Process Industries Jan C. Fransoo Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Demand Management 187 Introduction Process industries cover a wide range of businesses. The American Production and Inventory Control Society...

... history of the data series. Concludes with a discussion of an “ideal”forecasting system and how far removed many popular programs used in production and inventory control are from this ideal. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Computer software Forecasting Inventory control MRP Production control Stock...

... Systems, 2nd ed., Irwin, Homewood, IL, 1988. Production planning Production control Systems integration Flexible manufacturing systems ...

...Yasuhiro Hirakawa; Kyoji Hoshino; Hiroshi Katayama Recently, it has been recognized that production control systems for multi‐stage manufacturing processes can be classified into push‐type and pull‐type systems. The push‐type systems are commonly defined as those types of materials requirements...

... of jobs rather than just considering the shopfloor throughput time. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Decision‐support systems Marketing Production control Manufacturing lead times IJOPM 11,6 A Decision Support System for Job Release in Make-to-order Companies 6 Received August 1990 Accepted January...

... for different performance criteria of optimisation. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Production management Flexible manufacturing systems Real time Control systems Production control IJOPM 10,9 On the Simulation Run Length: A Step towards Real Time Control in an FMS 74 Amit Garg Received September 1989...